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Functional Resume Templates
May 17th
I mean really SEEN them, as in a before and after comparison. The effects are stunning. A highly trained recent graduate of boot camp has a ripped, well defined, muscular and most of all VERY STRONG physique. It is easy to understand why so many trainers have set up “boot camp style” trainings all across the country. Folks flock to these early morning intense session in hopes of shedding pounds, building muscle, and totally transforming their physique. These boot camps, in mimicking their military counterparts, focus their workouts around the concept of training known as functional strength training.
So, what is functional strength training anyways? Functional Strength Training is “The development of physical strength that most closely mimics what might be needed in real world situations.” Pretty simple, why work on building strength or developing muscles you may never really need in the real world. Let’s take the bench press, for instance. Try to imagine a scenario where you would be laying directly on your back, and the only way to survive would be to push an extremely heavy weight straight over your head. Whenever I ask this question to a group of fitness buffs, I usually get someone who shouts out “What if a car fell on you?” Well, in the real world, I am not usually in a scenario where a car could fall on my, and if in fact I was laying on my back and I car DID fall on me, well, no amount of bench pressing would turn that into a happy scenario.
There ARE many real world scenarios where functional strength training could play a part in your safety or survival. What if, in order to save yourself, you had to scale a high wall? Maybe someone was chasing you, or you had to get on the other side to rescue someone, how would you get over the wall? No matter how pretty your pec muscles were, no amount of pressing will get you through this one. Nope, this is all pulling my friend. This type of scenario is one of the reasons that the military put such an emphasis to perform pull-ups. The ability to pull your own weight is an extremely useful and tactical skill and forms the foundation of a solid functional strength training regimen.
Another heavily focused fundamental of this type of training is core strengthening. Remember that scenario with the bench press? Well, if you DID have a large weight on your chest that you need to get off, you would save yourself, not by pressing straight up, but my twisting your torso (using your core muscles) and pushing with your legs to throw the weight to the side. The press does come into play, but it is the functional movement of your whole body that gives you true strength and ability in these types of real world scenarios. Other types of exercises include the squat, dead lift, lunges, and push ups among others.
Functional strength training can help you get through your everyday activities more easily. They can also better prepare you for life threatening situations that could befall any of us at any time. They can also give you a slim, ripped, muscular physique. So what are you waiting for? Do some research on functional strength training, put together a workout, and transform your body for the better today.
Functional Strength Training-The military way to strength and fitness
May 17th
Have you ever seen someone just after they got out of a military boot camp? I mean really SEEN them, as in a before and after comparison. The effects are stunning. A highly trained recent graduate of boot camp has a ripped, well defined, muscular and most of all VERY STRONG physique. It is easy to understand why so many trainers have set up “boot camp style” trainings all across the country. Folks flock to these early morning intense session in hopes of shedding pounds, building muscle, and totally transforming their physique. These boot camps, in mimicking their military counterparts, focus their workouts around the concept of training known as functional strength training.
So, what is functional strength training anyways? Functional Strength Training is “The development of physical strength that most closely mimics what might be needed in real world situations.” Pretty simple, why work on building strength or developing muscles you may never really need in the real world. Let’s take the bench press, for instance. Try to imagine a scenario where you would be laying directly on your back, and the only way to survive would be to push an extremely heavy weight straight over your head. Whenever I ask this question to a group of fitness buffs, I usually get someone who shouts out “What if a car fell on you?” Well, in the real world, I am not usually in a scenario where a car could fall on my, and if in fact I was laying on my back and I car DID fall on me, well, no amount of bench pressing would turn that into a happy scenario.
There ARE many real world scenarios where functional strength training could play a part in your safety or survival. What if, in order to save yourself, you had to scale a high wall? Maybe someone was chasing you, or you had to get on the other side to rescue someone, how would you get over the wall? No matter how pretty your pec muscles were, no amount of pressing will get you through this one. Nope, this is all pulling my friend. This type of scenario is one of the reasons that the military put such an emphasis to perform pull-ups. The ability to pull your own weight is an extremely useful and tactical skill and forms the foundation of a solid functional strength training regimen.
Another heavily focused fundamental of this type of training is core strengthening. Remember that scenario with the bench press? Well, if you DID have a large weight on your chest that you need to get off, you would save yourself, not by pressing straight up, but my twisting your torso (using your core muscles) and pushing with your legs to throw the weight to the side. The press does come into play, but it is the functional movement of your whole body that gives you true strength and ability in these types of real world scenarios. Other types of exercises include the squat, dead lift, lunges, and push ups among others.
Functional strength training can help you get through your everyday activities more easily. They can also better prepare you for life threatening situations that could befall any of us at any time. They can also give you a slim, ripped, muscular physique. So what are you waiting for? Do some research on functional strength training, put together a workout, and transform your body for the better today.
http://www.MrFatLoss.com , aka, Emile Jarreau is 31 year veteran fitness professional and co-owner of M2FitnessPros.com in Long Beach, California. Also having 19 years of bodybuilding and figure coaching and previous NPC judging experience, he specializes in fat loss and all its aspects and freely shares online resources to the world.
Life in the Marine Corps: An Infantryman’s Perspective
May 17th
Life in the Marine Corps is in many ways like a civilian job once you have completed all of your training and schooling. In a typical civilian job, most people work from about 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. They show up for work in the morning grab a cup of coffee and often start their day with some sort of regular routine before focusing on more specific tasks that need to be completed. Around noon a one hour lunch is taken and in the afternoon specific task’s are focused upon. Life in the Marines is much the same way!
I was an infantryman in the Marine Corps for four years from 1993 1997. The first 6 months of my four years as an active duty Marine were much different than a civilian job. The first six months for me consisted of boot camp, and formal infantry training at what is known as the School of Infantry (SOI). We all are pretty much aware of what boot camp is like. In boot camp, nasty civilians are transformed into one of the few, the proud, a Marine! You will get yelled at a lot, you will PT (physical training) a lot, and you will either lose or gain a lot of weight! You will learn how to fire a rifle with pinpoint accuracy at 500 yards, learn how to wear a uniform correctly, and will learn about the many traditions and customs Marines live by. You’ll also learn a lot about Marine Corps history, first aid, and how to do basic warfare. In three months you will be transformed into one of the Few. I won’t lie; boot camp is tough, very tough. Once you get through it though, you will be a much better person for it and will be bursting with confidence.
After boot camp comes your formal schooling. It is at this point that you will attend some sort of school to learn the skills needed to perform your job well. It may be communication school, the school of infantry, or some kind of avionics school. Whatever it is, it will be much easier than boot camp and you will have much more freedom than in boot camp. At this point, you will be considered a “boot” a Marine who has just completed boot camp. Boots still have no idea what the “real Marine Corps” is like. The real Marine Corps in known as “the Fleet” or “FMF”, the Fleet Marine Force!
Once you are in the FMF, your real job begins. In the FMF your life will be very similar to a civilian’s life. You will be paid a salary, and will work from about 5:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m much of the time. In the infantry, you will often start your day with a healthy dose of PT (physical training). The PT will often consist of a multi-mile run, combined with other exercises like push-ups, sit-ups, side-straddle-hops, etc. When you are “in the rear” or not out in the field training, you will often have classes about such things as how to read a map, how to do first aid, how to call in mortar fire, and how to conduct a patrol. Other times you will be preparing for the next field exercise by packing up your gear and getting briefed on what type of exercise it will be. As a boot, you will be sent on “working parties”. These are odd jobs that need to be done around the base and within your unit. You may be asked to help sort gear at supply, help build wooden tank targets for a firing range, or you might just be out picking up trash. Whatever you are asked, do it and do it well you will be rewarded for it. The rest of the time, you will be performing your job. For an infantryman, that means conducting field exercises. This includes attacking an enemy position at a live fire range, shooting live rounds and throwing live grenades in a house made out of tires, and rappelling of the side of a 100 foot rock wall. When you are done with these field exercises, you’ll return to “the rear” and the cycle will begin again. That’s the very bare bones basics of what it is like in the Marines as an infantryman.
Of course, there is much, much more to it than what I have just described here. If you have a question about what life is like as a Marine Corps Infantryman, find your way to this free Marine Corps Community where there are hundreds of members willing to answer your questions! I’d be more than willing to answer any question you may have myself!
Brent Lamborn is a former active duty US Marine and manager of a free site for Marines and their supporters:
Gain Muscle And Start Fitness Together, With Us At The Ultimate Fitness Studios
May 17th
Gain more Muscle and Transform Your Body in The Ultimate Fitness Studio of Frisco
We currently offer personal training studios prosper Workouts and one-on-one customized ultimate fitness programs, group boot camps classes and nutrition counseling which educates men, women, and teens to improve their health and fitness. Training programs for all clients includes: Meal planing, supplements and weekly fitness assessments and weekly fitness & training sessions here at the studio.
Here’s what you can expect from YOUR Fitness Studio Core Team:
Develop Comprehensive Health & Fitness Program: You’ll receive instruction and training on our programs and truly learn not only how to get results but also how to maintain them AND you’ll have the flexibility to integrate incorporate your likes and dislikes.
Tracking Client Progress: In order to make certain your success in our programs, we’ll need to track your progress, current successes and challenges, change your food journal and exercise log worksheets and over and over on a weekly basis. It is our job to hold you responsible to your health and exercise program to ensure the Top results possible.
Perform Fitness Evaluations: We will test for: body composition, bodyweight, girth measurements, blood pressure, heart rate and a bunch various stability tests. These studio tests give us a fair representation of your current health and a baseline for future results exercisetesting.
Coach You Through Your Program: We are liable for weekly exercise studio sessions and keeping profound weekly progress reports on the clients we work with. If you are having challenges throughout your program, our fitness studio trainers in Dallas will coach and motivate you and make appropriate changes to ensure consistent progress.
Perform Proper Exercise Instruction: This is a big one. We will show proper coaching, instruction, and motivation right through your training session. We will teach you about the human body (i.e. functions and show why certain exercises/movements are important for your goals.
Personal Trainer Studio Education: It is our job as a fitness coaches to show you with health and fitness education on as many topics that will empower you to lead healthy lives all the time. You’ll be provided with educational tools and resources, will be expected to review them and speak about them with your studio trainer.
Frank Simpson works with his Fitness Clients Together in Dallas Texas who specializes in Personal Training in a Fitness Studio
Courage: the Great Wave of Change
May 17th
Are you brave? Do you courageously meet life’s challenges without batting an eye? Or are you the lion in Wizard of Oz who trembles in fear …longing for the instinct of courage that grants us the heart to face each day. Powerful universal energies are pushing us to the brink of assurance as we encounter the Great Wave of Change that is turning everything topsey turvey. There’s unprecedented uncertainty in the global economy, politics, religions, health … everything. It’s so tempting to hide under the covers and postpone the intense karmic demands of this Shift of the Ages.
How do we boldly open to the moment when instinct exclaims: “run for the hills?” Current transformational forces leave no stone unturned. There’s no place to hide. We need to drum up the gumption to go forward into this vibrational blizzard—face the unknown and stay open to the cosmic line of fire illuminating our soul’s destiny.What areas of your life are demanding an act of courage? Preparation time has run out. Now is the moment to evoke the gritty determination to meet these challenges. Postponement only shrinks self-esteem. Courage begets confidence, not the other way around.
Courage springs from the call of the soul that fills us with the passion to believe in ourselves and take a stand without crumbling. Do you have the guts to follow your soul? When you chicken out do you fall into a pile of shame, longing for the valor to step up the plate?
People who climb Mt. Everest, compete in the Olympics, perform in Carnegie Hall, rescue others from a burning building are the brave ones… not us! We long for their grit. But overt acts of bravery aren’t the only barometers of courage. It also takes pluck to leave a stagnant career loaded with benefits, be honest with others, broadcast to the world our true identity, and confront parents… even get up in the morning.
We project courage onto others—assuming they’re naturally lionhearted—to abdicate responsibility for our own boldness. It’s tempting to hide by identifying ourselves as fraidy-cats. But Divine Dauntlessness is equally available to all. Courage develops through practice. Everyone is spiritually mandated to draw from the sacred internal place where Spirit ignites the spunk needed to move to the front lines of full exposure to ourselves, others and Source. Courage reflects the commitment to be authentic, extend ourselves, take risks, break away, follow our dreams, move in new directions, name our feelings, approach our pain, keep the faith, accept ourselves.
Always invoked in times of dread, acts of courage are never easy. Boldness doesn’t indicate a lack of fear, but rather a willingness to move through it and out the other side. We can reference previous audacious feats as a reminder of our capacity for bravery. Even the most timid make acts of courage, however subtle. Spirit applauds us for not capitulating to the churning stomach, cold feet, sweats, spiking anxiety/dread that floods us as we approach the Chamber of Fortitude.
To identify ourself as a coward ensteels the notion that we don’t have what it takes to meet our destiny. Yet, divinely designed to evolve the soul, we’re blueprinted to handle all karmic challenges. To reference ourselves as spineless often causes us to forget, or at least discount, any prior moments of valor. We must take credit for all acts of courage. They form the foundation to take the heroic next step.
What’s the line between courage and recklessness? The need for courage persists in spite of our resistance. Devoid of discernment, recklessness is a blind response that overrides and denies the true danger of the moment. Illusions of being invincible don’t really build backbone, but rather invite disaster. Bravado is not bravery. True courage springs from the acceptance/integration of our vulnerability.
Do you mercilessly raise the bar by challenging yourself relentlessly—pushing to the front with no respite and discounting previous heroic acts as inconsequential to the next peril being conquered? We can’t keep pumping up the courage needed to ruthlessly outdare ourselves. The psyche and adrenal glands need balance via respite, intermission, regrouping, down time, ease, comfort. Maybe we’ve spent many lifetimes riding the adrenaline rush of developing courage and need to recuperate by nestling into the safe zone’s cushiness. Others, chronically skittish, may be mandated to focus this lifetime on becoming spunky and resisting the impulse to flee. Internal guidance indicates whether we’re burning out adrenal glands vs. stagnating in a milksop bog.
To force ourselves to override sensitivities, deep wounds and/or the needs of our inner child in order to satisfy ambitious agendas is a cruel, self-abusive form of courage that creates a brutal internal boot camp. We must carefully assess the needs of our soul. Sometimes it takes courage to give ourselves permission to retreat, wait, rest, heal. Timing is everything. Self-judgments of cowardice only hurt the soul. To override ourselves isn’t bravery but rather a lack of self-acceptance.
We need to compassionately embrace and learn from the cowardly lion within rather than judge and slay it with shame. Everyone has a pocket of cowardice that represents parts of the soul traumatized in childhood and previous lifetimes. This timorousness provides an alchemical counterpart to our Gallant Knighthood—teaching humility, vulnerability, sensitivity and tenderness toward injured places that need safeguarding from courage’s overriding gusto.
Many of us are going through a profound healing crisis as the old self collides with the emerging empowered self. To move in the direction of complete soul health, we need courage to create new patterns that propel us beyond the comfort zone of stifling coping mechanisms that buffered/protected us in the past. Our healing eventually brings us to the juncture where we must bravely express the new self and function in ways that previously felt dangerous to our inner child.
Imagine life without courage. We’d never explore new internal/external frontiers. Our world would shrink, self-confidence evaporate, self-respect dwindle as the voices of danger encroach in all parts of our lives, eager to feed on spinelessness.
Courage is developed by saying YES to the immediacy of the moment, no more preparation time, and remembering that we have all the resources needed to meet every challenge. Then we call upon the Mountain of Fortitude within, everyone’s birthright that pumps its fire into our system to burn away the sticky web of fear that enshrouds the soul. We become keenly focused, not looking back, and listen to our heart’s guidance. This stimulates the heart, the center of courage, to flow its gallant energy. Every courageous moment, intensely meaningful for the soul, ripples through the aura and heals all previous moments of cowardice. We discover our noble greatheartedness and the world is ours.
The Tibetan boldly approaches—filled with the courage to care so deeply about humankind. He teaches:
“The New Cosmic Day is compelling humankind to release cowardice and bravely undergo radical change. Evolution requires the soul to open in the face of the unknown. Courage is essential to this process. All acts of courage arise from a commitment to self’s unforeseeable emerging truth. Everyone is required to develop courage without lingering in guardedness. This is not the time to be a quitter. Courage evokes a core passion that defines the soul. To put the soul on the line stimulates past life memories of danger that instigated a collapse into a withering cage of diminishment that curtailed soul magnitude.
“Source has bestowed upon all of humanity a bank account of valor that can be tapped whenever needed. If not utilized, this account fades into the unconscious and self feels dangerously exposed to the Path with no resources of dauntlessness. But humankind’s birthright of intrepid mettle springs forth immediately when consciously invoked. Release the illusion that self is too fainthearted to access the courage needed to face the momentousness of today’s changes. The Spirit of Courage, emanating from the spirit plane, is divinely mandated to catalyze the fire in the soul needed to embrace its mystery and ultimately discover there is no danger in the Universe. The soul references this wisdom when resolutely moving forth through the illusion of precariousness forearmed with the core safeness inherent in Source’s Love for self.
“Present potent energies afford tremendous opportunities to practice courage. Humankind is being called to dare challenge habitual beliefs that are obsolete/irrelevant to the new consciousness, take risks that serve the soul, radically transform, release all defenses, hold an open mind, display self’s magnitude, be a truthsayer, follow self’s visions, trust the heart. The rewards of this great discipline of courage are freedom from fear, empowerment, deepened self-worth, the ability to let go, increased authority, adventure, transformation.
“The Masters and Angelic Force align with every stance of courage taken by humankind. No one is ever exposed alone or unsupported. Students’ willingness/ability to commit acts of courage stems from a deep awareness of the Great Presence of all those who help, support and make possible the journey by lending their mighty energy to self’s force field. This fusion of spirit with human establishes the Platform of Courage that expands the aura. When self feels large, fear dissolves. Humankind discovers how easy it is to be brave when great forces are augmenting self’s fortitude. Borrow courage from the Masters until self feels it springing from within. Identify self as the hero and know that the quest for the Holy Grail awaits all who adventure forth.”
Moriah Marston, soul mentor in private psychotherapy practice since 1983, combines tools of depth astrology and dream analysis with her intuitive blend with Ascended Master Djwhal Khul’s soul perspective. Moriah has a penetrating multidimensional approach to healing and transformation. She specializes in phone sessions for individuals and couples. Moriah also offers group seminar intensives through her educational center, The School of the Golden Discs, in Colrain, MA. She is author of Earth School (a compilation of 68 articles from her Wisdom column) and Soul Searching with Djwhal Khul, the Tibetan. 413-624-9606, Visit her web site: www.transformationaltimes.com.
Founder of the School of the Golden Discs, Moriah has been a channel for Djwhal Khul since 1986. As a soul mentor, Moriah includes astrology, dream analysis and past life integration in the intuitive work as a mid-wife to the soul alignment process. Moriah has a private practice in Shelburne Falls, MA and specializes in phone sessions. Click here to visit her site!http://transformationaltimes.com
